In 2004 the Darfur region of Sudan witnessed a million people being displaced from their villages, many crossing the border to poorly resourced refugee camps on the Chad border. Up to fifty thousand people have been killed -predominantly by the Janjaweed, pro-Government militias, who have systematically ethnically cleansed Darfur’s black African population.

The long standing tension in Darfur erupted in 2003 when black African rebels attacked Government forces. The response by the Government backed militias has been brutal - villages have witnessed the murder of all their men with the surviving women often raped by the Janjaweed. Refugees who have survived attacks say that the militia attacks followed aerial bombing by Sudanese planes.

The international community has responded with humanitarian aid and pressure on the Sudanese Government to control the militias

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